Evolving and Sustaining Ocean Best Practices IV

OBPS Workshop 2020 18; 21-25 & 30 Sep 2020 (Online)

Workshop Summary This workshop engages the ocean research and applications community on the creation and use of best practices. It draws on the experience of Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS) user groups and stakeholders on how the system should evolve to better fulfil its vision and mission with respect to their community’s needs. The workshop will produce a set of documents on community-specific and general recommendations for OBPS development and expanded community engagement. Due to the current environment, the workshop is a web-based “virtual” meeting. This has allowed up to alter the format for broader global participation. Community engagement is the key goal of this meeting and working groups dominate the agenda. The agenda consists of a plenary on 18 September to provide background and kick off the working groups. The self-organized working groups meet sometime during the span of September 21 -24 as determined by the working group lead/participants. The second plenary on September 25 is a series of discussions around the reports of the working groups and their recommendations. A short perspective paper will be available for each working group prior to the workshop. These recommendations will be integrated into a multi-year plan and presented at the final “mini-plenary” on September 30. The second plenary and mini-plenary will have two instances to accommodate time zones of our global participants.

Framework of Workshop Sessions

Thu 17 Sep 2020

Fri 18 Sep 2020

Mon 21 Sep 2020

Tue 22 Sep 2020

Wed 23 Sep 2020

Thu 24 Sep 2020

Fri 25 Sep 2020

Wed 30 Sep 2020

ECOP

P1 WG/CCT WG/CCT WG/CCT WG/CCT P2 Mini P

ECOP = Early Career Ocean Professionals P = Plenary; WG/CCT = Community Consultation (CC) and Cross-cutting Themes (CCT) Working Groups. The CC and CCT WG meetings may occur any time during the four day period indicated.

Agenda

18 Sep: Plenary 1 (4.5 Hours)

Time Topic Presenter

Introduction

Main Room 18.00 UTC 20 mins

Background and Capabilities of OBPS Presentation

Presenters: Johannes Karstensen and Jay Pearlman

Main Room 18.20 UTC 40 mins

Panel: Decade Implementation with respect to Best Practices (and an action plan for us)

Lead: Elva Escobar

19.00 UTC 10 mins

Transition to BREAKOUT Sessions Coffee room and Garden open at the same time for individual discussions

19.10 UTC 60 mins

BREAKOUTS Cross-cutting Theme and Community Consultation Working GroupsW (breakout discussions will start from white papers to be distributed prior to the workshop)HITE

Cross-cutting Themes

Room 2 Convergence of methods and endorsement of best practices

Leads: Juliet Hermes; Johannes Karstensen; Jordan van Stavel

Room 3

Developing community capacities for the creation and use of best practices

Lead: Ariel Troisi

Room 4 Data and information management: towards globally scalable interoperability

Lead: Pier Luigi Buttigieg

Room 5 Ethics and best practices for ocean observing and applications

Lead: Michele Barbier

Room 6 Ocean Uncertainty Quantification Lead: TBA

Room 7 Ocean Partnership Building Lead: Jon White

Community Consultation

Room 8 Fisheries Lead: Peter Haugan

Room 9 Sargassum Lead: Emily Smail

Room 10 Marine Litter/Plastics

Lead: Artur Palacz Co-lead: Rene Garello

Room 11 Air-Sea Exchange (ASE) Lead: Meghan Cronin

Room 12 Omics/eDNA

Lead: Neil Davies Co-lead: Kathleen Pitz

20.10 UTC 20 mins BREAK (coffee room and garden open for individual discussions)

Main Room 20.30 UTC 45 mins

CC & CCT WG Presentations (3 minutes each) Moderator and WG Leads

Main Room 21.15 UTC 60 mins

Discussion on WG reports, integration across WG inputs and other things

Moderator

5 minutes Close

21-24 Sep: CC/CCT WG online working sessions (detailed session schedule to be defined by Leads and working group members) 25 Sep: Plenary 2: (4 Hours) There are two instances of Plenary 2 to accommodate global participation. Discussions covering working group recommendation and participant interventions

Plenary Instance

1

Plenary Instance

2

Topic Presenter

Main Room 15:00 UTC 60 mins

Main Room 02:00 UTC 60 mins

Session 1: Reports from each CC and CCT WG.

CCT and WG leads or representatives

15 minutes 15 minutes BREAK (coffee room and garden open for individual discussions

60 minutes 60 minutes Session 2: Reports from each CC and CCT WG. (cont.)

CCT and WG leads or representatives

15 minutes 15 minutes BREAK (coffee room and garden open for individual discussions

60 minutes 60 minutes Session 3: Synthesis discussion Panel of WG leads

25 minutes 25 minutes Plenary Recommendations TBA

5 minutes 5 minutes Close

30 Sep: Mini-Plenary (2 Hours) There are two instances of the Mini-Plenary to accommodate global participation . The Workshop Committee will present a synthesis of the collected Working Group documents, stressing the resonance across Working Group recommendations considering areas of key strategic focus. Discussions cover synthesized Working Group recommendations, interventions, and answers to questions. The outcome of the Workshop is a Final Report on Recommendations and Synthesis for community development of best practices and strategy for OBPS.

Instance 1

Instance 2

Topic Presenter

Main Room 15:00 UTC 45 mins

Main Room 02:00 UTC 45 mins

Information and feedback session on WG and CCT report synthesis

Moderator: TBA

70 minutes 70 minutes Consensus for priorities for three year planning

Moderator: TBA

5 minutes 5 minutes Close

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